On January 29, I spent a day inside a ballroom on The Ohio State University campus in Columbus serving as a judge for the Ohio Clean Energy Challenge, presented by the University Clean Energy Alliance of Ohio and NorTech. This contest pitted student teams from universities and colleges across Ohio pitching their clean energy business [...]
Cleantech junkies like myself get seduced by all sorts of neat-o new technological ideas. But, we need to bear in mind that technology invention is only a part of commercial success — and in fact, arguably not even the most important part. This perspective is brilliantly put forth in a brief essay called “A History Lesson for [...]
